Now add to that pile we have Mistika Insight. I just happened to chance upon reading it on Redshark news website.

This is good for students and freelancers like myself who were on other platforms to dip into other color grading and editing systems, to see what is out there and see if this can fit your workflow in the future.

Here is what SGO says about Mistika Ultima

The world’s most advanced Hero Suite, providing editing, VFX, colour grading, text, paint, audio, S3D, full finishing, and more, in a completely scalable, truly interactive, fully real-time, and totally resolution independent post-production system. Such wide-ranging features and capabilities enable Mistika to be used on-set with a laptop, through boutique facilities to large multi-faceted studio workflows, enabling Mistika to redefine the traditional concept of a Hero Suite.” – SGO.ES

First Impressions & Installation

For Mistika Installation was easy and it was a one time activation by email and there is no nagging app helper or extra notifications that installs during your windows startup.

I tried avid media composer free but it installed an Avid App manager similar to Adobe which I do not like that it keeps starting up and there were issues in getting a license from their servers initially.

I gave it a spin and have to say I am impressed, it runs quite well on my old dell 4600 system. Unlike Resolve 14 which was in beta it crashes on launched.

Looking at the UI it feels like Autodesk Flame or Assimilate Scratch. It does not work as easy as Resolve or Avid Media Composer. This is afterall an application for Color DI Work and doing FX Compositing like Green Screen effects.

Getting a small project edited

Doing some FX Work in Mistika.

I downloaded some sample footage of Sony FS cameras and ProRes Footage.

Now looking at This version of SGO Mistika. It does seem overwhelming. It does not work like Premiere or Avid Media Composer.

It has a Project and folder structure you have to follow.

It has effects built in to do some VFX. I like that the effects are node based.

You can do an output of 1080p HD footage with MP4 codecs.

Customers of SGO

Star Wars Force Awaken Finising on SGO Mistika.

Quantum Break editing and finishing a Live Action show for a video game.

I loved the game quantum break and it was interesting to see Mistiaka being used as a post hub to edit the VFX and make the final Edits. The game featured multiple endings and storylines.

“Working on Quantum Break appealed to me straight away because of its technical challenges. I have three Mistikas at LightBender and we use them for a variety of projects, but this was the first time I’ve worked on such a unique gaming project that’s so different from any other. They started shooting in February last year (2015) and it took approximately eight months to deliver the final cut, using Mistika to review VFX and serve as a hub for conforming and versioning.

Quantum Break was interesting because it’s still a product that needs colour grading but built into the whole concept of a video game. This means there isn’t one set story line, the actual story changes multiple times when you start playing the game, so it is imperative I came up with a workflow that we could work effectively across all the different scenarios.”

COLOURIST JUAN CABRERA

Training Webinar and Tutorials

I would recommend downloading the manual and looking over some of the Webinairs to understand how Mistika Works. Their Website Forum, Vimeo and Facebook group have some nice videos tutorials.

Mistika has largely been the realm of Linux users, but there’s now a free download for both Mac and Windows users. And there appears to be a Virtual Reality suite as well. Since its free, users are kept under the glass ceiling that separates HD and 4K, so you’re limited to 1920 x 1080 MPEG4. Additionally, if you bother to read the SGO End User License Agreement (EULA), you are to agree to make only not for profit video projects, and the license is good for only a year.

TL;DR

App is Free that’s a plus

Does not seem to crash (So Far)

Do need a decent system and Storage to run smoothly

1080P output Which is enough to learn and make a small reel

Not for beginners

This is more for DI work and Post Production Finishing

Can do effects but not sure how much dept it has as compared to Nuke or Fusion

Editing is a little different from traditional NLEs (Premiere & Avid)

You can only make Non-Commercial Works as part of the License Agreement

Steve Jobs did say once the product people gets replaced by the marketing people the company forget what it means to make great products.

I have been posting and retweeting other users impressions of the new MacBook Pro Touchpad that was launched a couple of weeks ago by apple. It is really is a nice laptop with some bad design choices for professionals or consumers. (Note I have yet to see it up close and of course the video does not do it justice)

Some of the choices they made seem like arrogant design and not care for the user. Just because you can make it happen does not mean that its good to be used functional wise.

In comes Microsoft

Surface Pro and Surface Studio while I have been using macs all this while microsoft has been quietly making improvements

I myself have been watching the Surface Pro as a tablet replacement, since I need to do work on the Go sometimes I do like to work with full windows Apps.

But Still Apple still has many pre-orders for its new MacBook Pro touch pad. But this year it seems that Microsoft may have rekindled a magic from a long time ago when everyone looked forward to an Apple event and see magic happen.

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